ACK has pretty much confirmed that their high-end Amiga system will use PA Semi chips. In an IRC session, Adam of ACK replied to the question how ACK was going to build a system faster than anything Apple ever produced on the PPC side: "Think PA Semi quad-core chips." Adam also said ACK started talks with PA Semi about a year ago, while also promising specifications of the high-end system to be released coming Monday.
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Member since:2005-07-06
I've always preached the combining of AmigaOS and the VIA EPIA paltform. Small, all-in-one motherboards, more than enough horsepower for AmigaOS, and best of all: they are readily available unlike expensive custom hardware. Now, that would've at least given the Amiga a fighting chance.
Member since:2007-04-06
Via Epia is x86 based. If Amiga OS4 was x86 based, then I would say this discussion would be moot.
A more close suggestion would be the Pegasos or Efika boards from Genesi. But there seems to be certain discord between them that would prevent such a contract.
The reason why the OS4 does not have a fighting chance is because of the politics surrounding the parent company and the product.
Member since:2005-07-23
Yeah, but I guess they think everyone would copy it then, but if $25.000 was all Hyperion got for it (I don't know if it was, just a number I saw, doesn't matter, say xxx $) just let the community buy it of and make it free.
The AmiZilla project is up to $10,373.02 (would be sad if they where never paid out, poor people who donated.), those money can't be used to pay for AmigaOS source code and rights but if it was...
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2006-02-01
If they wanted to make Amiga OS 4 available to the masses they would've written it to run on X86 or X86_64. There will never be cheap, plentiful, fast, and easy to find Amiga hardware as long as it's tied to PPC.